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A day of art and music kicks off Denver's street-fair summer (slideshow)
Posted: Sat May 25 19:57:57 PDT 2013After an unusually soggy spring, Denver got down to the happy business of celebrating summer's advent Saturday with harbingers of its crowded summer schedule of street fairs and art festivals. The Downtown Day of Rock filled streets off downtown's 16th Street Mall with bands and fans Saturday. I particularly enjoyed the Noms, an Albuquerque outfit that played with passion and suggested an amal...
How to cope with 'the devouring workplace'
Posted: Sat May 25 03:00:02 PDT 2013When the CEO of Yahoo, recently mandated that telecommuters return to the office, she reversed the trend of trying to make it easier for people to achieve some kind of work-life balance. A new mother herself, her order impacts the moms and dads who used telecommuting to support their children. It is ironic that she justified this order in the name of better collaboration. Her decision does hig...
Amy's Baking Company kicks us out after we find flies in the vodka (three times)
Posted: Fri May 24 22:08:47 PDT 2013We went in with an open mind Friday night to try Amy's Baking Company for the first time, but our quartet was kicked out after pointing out bugs in not one, not two, but three versions of one simple vodka martini. After Tuesday's cancellation of a press conference and media interviews, I really wanted to get a firsthand account of the restaurant and the owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo. If you've...
Premium Stories Unlocked: Real estate heavy hitters
Posted: Fri May 24 21:00:05 PDT 2013Premium Stories Unlocked highlights content that was subscriber-only for the first 30 days since publication, but is now available to non-subscribers Real estate is once again hot in South Florida and our April 19 print edition listed Heavy Hitters in Commercial Real Estate. This search page lists the slideshows we did with Morning Edition and then eight categories with more detailed informati...
Viewpoint: Why you should help your employees become U.S. citizens
Posted: Fri May 24 21:00:00 PDT 2013The Miami hospitality industry has long been a champion of hospitality and driver of employment, and we now have a prime opportunity to show a whole new kind of hospitality: by supporting our employees who aspire to become American citizens. Several of our local hotels and the Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association have joined The Bethlehem Project, a chance to be hospitality ambassador...
When ideas collide: How face-to-face meetings achieve what the Internet cannot
Posted: Fri May 24 21:00:00 PDT 2013With the majority of communications taking place in cyberspace, one may wonder if there?s still a place for conferences and meetings with in-person, unscripted human interaction. For entrepreneurs seeking to grow their companies, and investors and others looking to preview new opportunities and re-connect with partners and friends, nothing can replace the spontaneity that occurs when creative ...
Covered California to pay $12M for ad agency and PR over two years
Posted: Fri May 24 19:32:39 PDT 2013Covered California, the new health benefit exchange that's been making news all week, sneaked more in at the last minute. It's paying giant PR firm Weber Shandwick $12 million over two years to market the exchange, which will offer insurance to uninsured Californians and small businesses. The contract with Weber Shandwick goes through April 2015, officials said late Friday, just as the Memoria...
State Farm development: Lots of jobs, less parking for ASU students
Posted: Fri May 24 18:04:38 PDT 2013The planned $600 million-State Farm Insurance regional headquarters that Tempe city officials confirmed today may bring thousands of jobs and tax revenues to the state, but for Arizona State University students, it will also mean less parking. The roughly 2,000 parking spots located on the north side of Rio Salado Parkway, just west of Rural Road ? commonly known as Lot 59 North ? will be elim...
Castle & Cooke moving forward with Hawaii ?Big Wind? project
Posted: Fri May 24 17:56:02 PDT 2013One half of Hawaii?s controversial 400-megawatt ?Big Wind? project ? in which large wind farms on Lanai and Molokai would pump electricity to Honolulu via an undersea cable ? is still moving forward. Castle & Cooke Inc., which kept the rights to build a wind farm capable of producing up to 200 megawatts of renewable energy when CEO David Murdock sold the majority of the Pineapple Island to Ora...
What caused the Skagit River bridge to collapse?
Posted: Fri May 24 17:53:03 PDT 2013During the coming days and weeks, state officials and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate the exact sequence of events leading to the collapse of the I-5 bridge spanning the Skagit River. The Washington State Patrol confirmed that a truck from Canada en route to Vancouver, Wash., struck the trusses that supported the bridge, causing the collapse. But the 70,000-pl...
This Week in Biotech
Posted: Sat May 25 16:30:02 PDT 2013Taking a page out of the old West, it was a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly this week in the biotech sector. ...
The Dow's 5 Cheapest Stocks
Posted: Sat May 25 16:04:02 PDT 2013Sometimes, a low earnings multiple is justified; other times, its not. ...
Tackling Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer's Biggest Current & Upcoming Players
Posted: Sat May 25 14:09:52 PDT 2013Cancer research is big business, and it pays to know where research dollars are headed. ...
The Top 3 Causes of Diabetes
Posted: Sat May 25 14:04:45 PDT 2013Affecting more than 25 million people in the U.S., here are the primary factors that lead to this potentially debilitating disease and what's being done to curb its growth. ...
This Past Week's Big Dow Losers
Posted: Sat May 25 14:00:01 PDT 2013An in-depth look at what caused a few stocks to fall. ...
The Wealth of a Galaxy Not So Far Away
Posted: Sat May 25 13:00:02 PDT 2013Learning from the market's past to understand its present. ...
Why the S&P 500 Was Flat Last Week
Posted: Sat May 25 12:30:02 PDT 2013Despite good economic news, concerns about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy sent the S&P 500 marginally lower last week. ...
What's Making 1 Promising Chemical Stock React Badly
Posted: Sat May 25 12:10:01 PDT 2013Chile's major chemical and mining company has seen its stock fall despite long-term growth prospects for the Latin American nation's economy. ...
It's Time to Buy Allstate Stock. Here's Why.
Posted: Sat May 25 12:06:42 PDT 2013Three reasons: It's cheap, it's growing, and it's churning out cash. ...
Which Retailer Is Winning This War?
Posted: Sat May 25 12:00:02 PDT 2013There's a fight going on for the dollars of America's youth, and not everyone is going to make it out in one piece. ...
